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Elm wood Elm in boatbuilding: John Constable, Boat-Building Near Flatford Mill, 1815 (landscape with hybrid elms Ulmus × hollandica [11]) English longbow of elm Elm wood is valued for its interlocking grain, and consequent resistance to splitting, with significant uses in wagon -wheel hubs, chair seats, and coffins .
Ulmus gaussenii W. C. Cheng, the Anhui, or hairy, elm, is a medium size deciduous tree whose natural range is restricted to the valleys of the Langya limestone mountains of Chu Xian [2] in Anhui Province, eastern China. [3] The tree was most commonly found on the flood plains, indicating a tolerance of periodic inundation.
Old Norse askr literally means "ash tree" but the etymology of embla is uncertain, and two possibilities of the meaning of embla are generally proposed. The first meaning, "elm tree", is problematic [clarification needed], and is reached by deriving *Elm-la from *Almilōn and subsequently to almr ('elm').
2.1 Etymology. 3 Distribution and habitat. 4 Ecology. Toggle Ecology subsection. ... Ulmus rubra, the slippery elm, is a species of elm native to eastern North America.
Ulmus glabra, the wych elm or Scots elm, has the widest range of the European elm species, from Ireland eastwards to the Ural Mountains, and from the Arctic Circle south to the mountains of the Peloponnese and Sicily, where the species reaches its southern limit in Europe; [2] it is also found in Iran.
The wood of the rock elm is the hardest and heaviest of all elms, and where forest-grown remains comparatively free of knots and other defects. It is also very strong and takes a high polish, and consequently was once in great demand in America and Europe for a wide range of uses, notably boatbuilding, furniture, agricultural tools, and musical instruments.
At about the same time, the tree was offered for sale by the Späth nursery of Berlin as Ulmus Wentworthi pendula Hort. [4] [5] [6] (see Etymology). The 'Hort.' in Späth's 1890 catalogue, without his customary label "new", confirms that the tree was by then in nurseries as a horticultural elm.
The Field Elm cultivar Ulmus minor 'Argenteo-Variegata' or simply 'Variegata', known in Australasia and North America as Silver Elm [1] [2] or Tartan Elm, [3] is said to have been cultivated in France from 1772. Green noted that variegated forms of Field Elm "arise frequently, and several clones may have been known under this name". [4]